Any of you guys have advice or tips concerning:
- Mobility & flexibility
Increase muscle mass and workload on muscle decreasing flexibilty or mobility.
(Example: bridges)
Do you do off day stretching (heard good things about (banded) shoulder dislocates)?
- deload
Is it recommended with the program? Do you guys implement anything of the sort?
I have no idea what you meant by increase muscle mass and decrease flexibility and mobility...
I do stretching on day (after workout) and off day but not so consistently. I usually stretch my weak side - wrists, forearms & elbows (had some injuries there), and just work on overall flexibility and mobility for the shoulders, wrists, forearms & elbows, legs, lower back and so on.
About the deload, I believe Chris recommends to take a full week off every 4th month of training to avoid injuries. And obviously you can implement actual deloads every 3rd or 4th week, just joke around perhaps, I personally just do some skill training, kind of as a fun deload week and I usually do it whenever I feel some tightness or injury could come so I just stop doing sets & reps and do whatever I feel like if you know what I mean.
I mean by exercising you are getting stronger but you should look out for becoming inflexible.
I tried doing a bridge and because I wasn't flexible enough I was unable to do the exercise properly.
I could hold myself up (musclewise) but felt a constant strain on those very muscles.
What type of skills do you actually train? (what level are you at?)
I just watched the introduction video again and indeed I forgot about the full week/4months. Thanks for pointing it out :D
Oh that's true about becoming inflexible. I can do the bridge but I feel just a little bit strain on the lower back (almost nothing), probably because I'm not used to the position because my lower back is indeed very flexible.
Well before the actual workout and on sort of deload weeks I usually train back levers, front levers, planches, handstand & variations (handstand press, one arm handstand, and so on). I can already do back levers so I pretty much do it for fun, and the front lever I am at straddle and I can hold a full one a little lower than horizontal level so I'm quite close to it. Planche, ehh you know lol, I'm at the beginning stage which is the tuck planche. What level am I at? Well as I am having a problem with explosiveness, I can't do many muscle ups so my Push is way back, my Pull is lvl 26 (can't do one arm chin ups), and I have finished the levels for the Legs & Core.